1st Edition

Neoliberalism and Education Rearticulating Social Justice and Inclusion

Edited By Kalwant Bhopal, Farzana Shain Copyright 2016
212 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Neoliberalism and Education: Rearticulating Social Justice and Inclusion offers a critical reflection on the establishment of neoliberalism as the new global orthodoxy in the field of education, and considers what this means for social justice and inclusion. It brings together writers from a number of countries, who explore notions of inclusion and social justice in educational settings ranging... Read more

Introduction – Educational inclusion: towards a social justice agenda? Kalwant Bhopal and Farzana Shain

1. Interrupting the interruption: neoliberalism and the challenges of an antiracist school Assaf Meshulam and Michael W. Apple

2. Fighting for the ‘right to the city’: examining spatial injustice in Chicago public school closings Carl A. Grant, Anna Floch Arcello, Annika M. Konrad and Mary C. Swenson

3. Just imaginary: delimiting social inclusion in higher education Trevor Gale and Steven Hodge

4. Re-articulating social justice as equity in schooling policy: the effects of testing and data infrastructures Bob Lingard, Sam Sellar and Glenn C. Savage

5. Beyond the education silo? Tackling adolescent secondary education in rural India Orla Kelly and Jacqueline Bhabha

6. Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men: re-racialization, class and masculinity within the neo-liberal school Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood

7. Disability and inclusive education in times of austerity Wayne Veck

8. Transforming marginalised adult learners’ views of themselves: Access to Higher Education courses in England Hugh Busher, Nalita James, Anna Piela and Anna-Marie Palmer

9. Home education, school, Travellers and educational inclusion Kate D’Arcy

Biography

Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely on educational inequalities, focusing on marginalised and excluded groups. She is the author of The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics: A comparative study of the unequal academy (Routledge, 2015). She is currently conducting research exploring successful support strategies for BME senior leaders in higher education.

Farzana Shain is Professor of Sociology of Education at Keele University, UK. Her research and writing focuses on educational inequalities and social justice, and on young people’s understandings of the politics of oil. She is the author of The New Folk Devils: Muslim Boys and Education (Trentham, 2011), and The Schooling and Identity of Asian Girls (Trentham, 2003), which both explore the social and political identifications of young people in a schooling context in England, against the backcloth of the global ‘war of terror’. She has also written widely about the politics of educational change in the further education sector in England.